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Verleek
1966
Journal 69
yesterday, which means that all my pictures were lost. On
the beach I found two dead Thilde killed Murre and collected
one of them, since the other one was spoiled. The rough
weather is probably responsible for making them collide with
the rocks.
On my way back I hiked about 1 km up Nasorak Creek
and then I hiked up hill on my way home. I saw one
Tree Swallow in Nasorak Valley. On the slopes I noticed
several Wheatears and a few White-c. Sparrows in the
willows along the creeks. Got home at 16:15. The ARK plane
just left with the two guys - (Frank Little and Bob Barodate).
In the evening I prepared the skin of the Thilde killed Murre
(NAMU 153).
Aug.
Another windy day with plenty of snowshoe.
I stayed inside during the morning.
In the afternoon Tom and Ron Brower and I hiked
up the valley N of camp to the area where I had seen the
Bare-tailed Godwit a few days ago. We did not see the birds,
but we did see a family group of Willow Ptarmigan and
we found a long-tailed Jaeger to drop a large Dicrosternix
trismucronatus which it had caught. We went home by way
of the Ogotank valley.
In the evening Ron Brower suggested a trip along the
cost in the direction of Kavellina, because he had seen
a Walrus along the beach which had not yet been stripped
of its ivory. Apparently the Eskimos killed a lot of Walruses
and failed to recover a good percentage of them. These animals